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Waym o | Confidential & Proprietary Waymo Safety Report George Ivanov Manager, Public Policy Development
W aym o Safet y ReportGe o rg e Iva n o vMa n a g e r, P u b lic P o licy De ve lo p m e n t
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W a ym o is a se lf-d rivin g t e ch n o log y com p a n y w it h a m ission t o m a ke it sa fe a n d e a sy fo r p e op le a n d t h in g s t o m ove a rou n d .
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We’ve been working at this problem for a long time. In 2009, the self-driving car project got started at Google after Sebastian Thrun, who had worked on the Stanford vehicles at DARPA, started talking to the leadership here at Google about working on self-driving vehicles. When we started, we set out on a challenge to drive fully autonomously over ten uninterrupted 100-mile routes in our Toyota Prius vehicles. Months later, we’d succeeded in driving an order of magnitude larger than had ever been driven autonomously.
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And this year, we brought our latest vehicle - the fully self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans - to public roads. This was our first collaboration with an automaker, working on a mass production platform.
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Over the last eight years, Waymo’s vehicles have self-driven more than 4 million miles on public roads, across more than 20 cities. That’s more than 160 times around the globe. Because we know that experience is the best teacher, we like to say, “we’re not building a better car, we’re building a better driver.”
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We recently surveyed 3,000 adults across the United States, asking them when they expected to see fully self-driving vehicles – ones without a person in the driver’s seat – on their roads. The most common answer? 2020
I. W a ym o ’s Syst e m Sa fe t y P ro g ra m : Sa fe t y-b y-De sig n
● Be h a vio ra l Sa fe t y● Fu n c t io n a l Sa fe t y● Cra sh Sa fe t y● Op e ra t io n a l Sa fe t y● No n -Co llis io n Sa fe t y
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II. Ho w W a ym o ’s Se lf-Drivin g Ve h ic le s W o rk
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Min im al Risk Cond it ion (Fallback): Ensuring the Ve h ic le Ca n Tra n sit ion t o a Sa fe St op
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III. Te st in g a n d Va lid a t io n Me t h o d s: En su rin g Ou r Ve h ic le s Are Ca p a b le a n d Sa fe
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Avoidance or M it igat ion of Com m on Crash Scenarios
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IV. In t e ra c t in g Sa fe ly W it h t h e P u b lic
● W a ym o ’s Ea rly Rid e r P ro g ra m● Rid e r Exp e rie n ce● Acce ssib ilit y Fe a t u re s● Em e rg e n c ie s & La w En fo rce m e n t
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Making W aym o’s Veh icles Easy to Use
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The way we people will use fully self-driving cars will be fundamentally different. This means we have to create new customs and norms for how passengers interact with a car that drives itself. When you’re a passenger in a car driven by a human, there’s a lot of communication that happens between you and the driver -- both verbal and non-verbal. In a fully self-driving car, we need to build trust between riders and our technology. One way we’re doing this is through our in-car screens.
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[video will autoplay] For instance, we highlight pedestrians and cyclists and render them using the actual laser points, so you can see their arms and legs move. Cyclists have a blue color under them, while pedestrians have a white one. This subtle color difference communicates to passengers that our vehicle can distinguish between the two. We also communicate what Waymo is thinking or doing. For example, a passenger in the backseat may wonder why their vehicle is stopped. So what we do here is highlight the crosswalk to tell passengers that there’s a pedestrian crossing. And we display a message that we’re yielding for them.
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W h a t ’s Ne xt
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This technology can unlock the full potential of shared mobility. With Waymo in the driver’s seat, we can reimagine many different types of transportation, from ride-hailing and logistics, to public transportation and personal vehicles, too. Think of our technology as a platform that can enable many different applications. Because we see so much potential in shared mobility, the first way people will get to experience fully self-driving technology will be in a Waymo driverless service.
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In the long term, Waymo could take you on all kinds of trips. Because you’re accessing vehicles rather than owning them, you could have access to an entire fleet of vehicle choices that are tailored to each trip you want to make. Because they no longer have to be designed around the driver as the primary user, vehicles can be re-designed for specific purposes and tasks that better suit our needs.
